LOST - Last Season (NO SPOILERS)

[Alesia]

Then why did they show the plane wreckage on the beach at the end, as if there were no survivors?

Christian was very clear that what happened on the island was real.

 

[bigmerle1966]

I'm soooo confused. How appropriate that I'm still Lost! I loved the entire thing until it dawned on me that Jack was dead. I initially thought he was the only one dead and the others were there for his funeral. So, Ben isn't dead which is why he didn't come in? Miles, Richard and Lapidus weren't on the original plane so they aren't dead and the Losties don't know them?

I did love the Target commercials - the pig, the smoke monster, the computer numbers - very cool.

Ben wasn't ready to go "into the light" yet. And yes the Losties did know them, it could just mean the same thing.

What happened, happened. Everyone was dead they just died at differant times, whether it was at some point during the show or sometime in the future. I think by showing Jack see the plane right before he died it was to show that those on it actually made it off the island.

 

[Cinderumbrella]

Well crap, so its like Titanic?????????

 

[N.Bailey]

Christian was very clear that what happened on the island was real.

But was it real while they were alive? I can't imagine they'd all consider themselves the best of friends and that they'd be waiting around for one another if they'd only sat together on a plane that crashed (many involved weren't even on the plane).

The ending made it seem like the times they spent together was the greatest time they'd experienced thru out their lives.

They did show the plane wreckage on the beach though. I am sure they wanted to have it interpreted in various ways or they wouldn't have put that scene in.

 

[Alesia]

But was it real while they were alive? I can't imagine they'd all consider themselves the best of friends and that they'd be waiting around for one another if they'd only sat together on a plane that crashed (many involved weren't even on the plane).

Exactly.

They did show the plane wreckage on the beach though. I am sure they wanted to have it interpreted in various ways or they wouldn't have put that scene in.

They were book-ending the show.

 

[PixieDust32]

I think they all die on different times and they were ready to move on so they all had to realize on their own that it was time to go.

Ben told Hugo that he was good number one and Hugo to Ben that he was good number 2.

 

[bengalbelle]

Then why did they show the plane wreckage on the beach at the end, as if there were no survivors?

I didn't take that to mean that they all died in the crash. I think it was just showing us what was left. Almost everyone was gone then. I thought it was kind of like a "goodbye" for us.

 

[PixieDust32]

Christian was very clear that what happened on the island was real.

I think it was real too, because the flashbacks, they remembered everything.

 

[muffyn]

the alternate endings!!!

hilarious!!!!!!!!

you gotta watch. its not what you think

 

[PixieDust32]

the alternate endings!!!

hilarious!!!!!!!!

you gotta watch. its not what you think

I thought so

 

[bengalbelle]

JKL must have started later here. I just saw the Snakes on a Plane 2 bit. LMAO!

 

[hereyago]

I am going to miss Sawyer and his nicknames and off cuff remarks.

 

[N.Bailey]

the alternate endings!!!

hilarious!!!!!!!!

you gotta watch. its not what you think

They were funny! I am disappointed that they devoted so much time to them though. I wan more of a goodbye.

 

[Planogirl]

I don't think that they were dead either. Jack and the dog like stated earlier were just bookends to the show.

 

[muffyn]

jimmy kimmel said there was a live q&a on the website now, but I can't figure out where??

went to jimmykimmellive.net which dumped me on the abc site, don't see anything

 

[Experiment_626]

There seems to be some confusion among some viewers.

The short answer to the main question I'm hearing is this: The island, and everything we saw happen there, was real. The Sideways was, in effect, purgatory -- a construct collectively created by the characters. Some of them died much later than Jack. Some, as we saw in the course of the show, died earlier. Time (of death, at least) has no meaning there. They all came to a recreation of September 2004 because it was the time the plane crashed on the island in the real world -- the beginning of the most important part of their lives. So the Sideways was an epilogue -- just not the one I had thought it was going to be.

It wasn't a loop, as some seemed to think. Jack just died in essentially the same place he originally woke up on the island. And they didn't die in the plane crash, as some seem to believe.

Jack never had a son. David was part of the construct; he was a way for Jack to work out some of his daddy issues. That's why, once Locke tells him he didn't have a son, we don't see David again.

Also, to drive home the point that Jack at the end wasn't the same as Jack in the opening scene of the pilot -- he's dressed totally differently. In the pilot he was in the suit and tie he wore on the plane. Tonight, he was wearing whatever he wore for the last several episodes.

 

[caribear]

I cried many times over the course of the 2 1/2 hours. I loved when each couple realized that they had known one another on the island....I cried when Jack and Kate parted on the cliff.....I was okay with the way it ended on the island....but the actual ending in the church was not the way I would have liked it to end. I took the sideways timeline to mean a type of "middle" ground...where the characters would meet one another again before moving on in death. The crash happened....what occured on the island happened....the Oceanic 6 returning home happened....the Oceanic 6 returning to the island happened...and everything up until Jack's death really did occur. People died at different times...some on the island like Sun/Jin/Jack/Juliet....while others returned home and died sometime in the future like Kate/Lapidus/Miles/Sawyer....yet in death they all met up again as they were like a famliy and were important to one another.

Still confused a little as to whether everyone in the church at the end was actually dead at their present age...I mean could Kate have lived to 90 years old, but in death when she met everyone else she looked like she did the last time Jack saw her on the island?? Each character in the sideways timeline seemed so happy to finally understand what they needed to do.....that is the part that I do not understand....they needed to let go.....oh well...I am still confused even though I understand most of what happened......

 

[muffyn]

Still confused a little as to whether everyone in the church at the end was actually dead at their present age...I mean could Kate have lived to 90 years old, but in death when she met everyone else she looked like she did the last time Jack saw her on the island?? Each character in the sideways timeline seemed so happy to finally understand what they needed to do.....that is the part that I do not understand....they needed to let go.....oh well...I am still confused even though I understand most of what happened......

well,
some people believe that in heaven you appear at a certain age.
when people talk of "seeing" dead relatives they are at an age where you last saw them ( umm we won't get in a discussion, I hope, but certain mediums have said this is what happens.)

plus , as someone mentioned.... um ever see the ending of titanic.
OR Somewhere in time? or ghost & mrs. Muir? or other movies where people die, then they meet up as young again?
i LOVE those endings

 

[TheZue]

I think they all die on different times and they were ready to move on so they all had to realize on their own that it was time to go.

Ben told Hugo that he was good number one and Hugo to Ben that he was good number 2.

Yup and it was very clear that some were not ready when Hugo ran into Ana Lucia a few episodes ago and he asked Desmond "Not ready yet?" after she asked if she knew him. Those that were ready went together. People like Michael who never were able to leave the Island weren't there either. I also took it to mean that everything on the island was real, and the purgatory sideline had no real spot in time and it was their meeting place once they ALL died. The character we followed was Jack, so it began when he awoke on the island and ended with his death then followed HIS transition out of purgatory which included all the main losties.

 

[TheZue]

Still confused a little as to whether everyone in the church at the end was actually dead at their present age...I mean could Kate have lived to 90 years old, but in death when she met everyone else she looked like she did the last time Jack saw her on the island?? Each character in the sideways timeline seemed so happy to finally understand what they needed to do.....that is the part that I do not understand....they needed to let go.....oh well...I am still confused even though I understand most of what happened......

This I found interesting because they did have slightly differing appearances. Sun and Jin along with Hurley had their hair from the crash in 2004, not how it was at their deaths in present time. Jack & Sawyer on the other hand did not have their hair as it was in the original crash, they had the current hair cut...even when we thought the side line was actual I wondered what was up with their hair not being like it was in 2004. Even John used his chair to get around after his "surgery" because he was used to it from his life, he obviously didn't need it. I took this to mean that their self image had some meaning in how they apeared in the afterlife.

The one issue I had was with Aaron being a baby because I assume he grew up and lived a normal life with his Grandma.